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Kazakhstan Lifts Curfew in Zhanaozen

The riots in the nearby town of Zhanaozen

08:02 31/01/2012

Kazakhstan lifted on Tuesday a state of emergency in southwestern Kazakh oil town of Zhanaozen introduced last December over violent clashes between police and protesters.

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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has vetoed the decision by the country’s Constitutional Council not to hold parliamentary elections in the southwestern town of Zhanaozen, which saw violent riots last month that left 16 people dead, the presidential press office said on Tuesday.
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Residents in the restive southwestern Kazakh town of Zhanaozen will be unable to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections because of a state of emergency introduced in the town following last month’s violent protests.
Kazakhstan extends state of emergency in Zhanaozen
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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev extended a state of emergency in Zhanaozen, the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan, to January 31 after the violent clashes between oil workers and police broke out in the town in December, said in a president’s decree.
Kazakh police who fired at Zhanaozen protestors face trial
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Human Rights Watch urges probe into alleged torture of Kazakh protesters
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Human Rights Watch called on Kazakh authorities Thursday to investigate allegations of torture of Zhanaozen protesters while the top Kazakh prosecutor invited UN experts to help with investigations, the agencies’ websites said.
Hundreds rally in new Kazakh protest
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14:47 19/12/2011
In the past few months Kazakhstan, once the quietest country in Central Asia, has turned into a hotbed of extremism. On December 16th when Kazakhstan marked its Independence Day, violent clashes took place in the western town of Zhanaozen in Mangistau district.
Kazakh president says instigators of oil town unrest will be severely punished
12:56 19/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 19 (RIA Novosti)
Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has set up a commission to investigate and punish the instigators of riots in the oil town of Zhanaozen that left at least 14 people dead, his press service said.
Kazakhstan reports more deaths after clashes in oil town
17:27 18/12/2011 ASTANA, December 18 (RIA Novosti)
Death toll form clashes in the Kazakhstan oil town of Zhanaozen has reached 14, official spokesman for the country's Prosecutor General's Office Nurdaulet Suindikov said on Sunday.
Three Russian journalists detained in Kazakhstan
15:14 18/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti)
Three Russian journalists covering riots in western Kazakhstan were detained without cause, Russia's Kommersant business daily said on its website on Sunday.
One killed, 11 wounded in fresh riots in Kazakhstan
07:42 18/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti)
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15:46 17/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has ordered an investigation into the worst violence in the former Soviet state in years which left at least 11 people dead.
Ten people killed in Kazakhstan unrest – prosecutor
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Ten people were killed in clashes in the southwestern Kazakh oil town of Zhanaozen on Friday, the country prosecutor general, Askhat Daulbayev, said in a statement.
Clashes erupt in Kazakh oil town, deaths reported
17:25 16/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Violent clashes broke out in southwestern Kazakh oil town of Zhanaozen on Friday amid celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the country’s independence, local prosecutors said in a statement.

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